Fist Of Fun
FIST OF FUN SERIES TWO, SHOW THREE - BROADCAST
1st March 1996 - BUY
DVD

Rich is puzzled. If Stew didn't do this, they wouldn't have to keep going to Diss!

And he is angry. Stewart Leach from Glasgow has written in to the show declaring him "a jumped-up stamp collector". To prove Stewart wrong, Quinlank provides us with this week's hobby. "Train Ignoring". For this week's hobby, you will need a pen, a list of all the rolling stock in Great Britain today, a blindfold - or some eyelids, a flask of weak lemon drink, and a trainspotter. Simon's trainspotter of choice is called Alan.
The premise of this hobby involves standing at railway sidings with the trainspotter and waiting. When you hear a train coming, cover your eyes & apply the blindfold. Your trainspotter will tell you which train has just gone past & you can then catalogue it, keeping a record of the trains that you have now ignored.
Back in the Studio, Rich is trying to fill the gap left by the X-Files with their own show. After all, what have Scully & Mulder got that Lee & Herring haven't?
Well, as Stew points out, they've got acting talent, real good looks, a top selling video, and nine million viewers in a peak time BBC one slot. But then, Stew wants the moon on a stick. The other thing, of course, that Scully & Mulder have over them, is an unconsummated sexual chemistry between the two leads, and the thought that at any moment that could spill over into flames of suppressed passion. When Rich suggests that they too could have have that, Stew points out that they would get nine viewers if they followed that road, not nine million. Undeterred, Rich throws accusations of wanting the moon on a stick at Stew, and then attempts to get the show transferred, mid-series, into a prime time BBC1 slot. Welcome to "The F-Files".

Or do they?


Hold on.
Rod Hull has a false rubber arm?

Seahand & Zemquitt are back again now, telling us about another film that they have improved.
Some guy had approached them with a script for a film called "Reservoir Dogs".
They didn't like it, get rid of the dogs & replace them with cats - and don't use a reservoir - use an alleyway. And don't call it "Reservoir Dogs", no - this should be "Top Cat The Movie".
Some Studio banter about women being able to propose to men on the leap year's extra 29th February leads into a discussion of love & marriage, illustrated by a sketch that displays the iconography & related conceits of marriage. Rod Hull meanwhile is still trying to revive the doctor from earlier.
He hits upon the idea that his jelly may bring him round but, as Stew points out, jelly has no medicinal properties.
Fortunately, Peter's on hand to revive the doctor with his accompanying stench.